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TIL that holding recess before lunchtime can increase fruit and vegetable consumption by 54%

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ne057 TIL That In The Republic Of Ireland, It’s Tradition For Pub Owners To Also Work As Undertakers.
8yda TIL of Robert Smalls; an escaped slave who captured and sailed a Confederate ship to the Union with 8 enslaved families, including his. He was awarded today’s equivalent of $34,000 for commandeering the ship, won a seat in the House of Representatives, and purchased his former slavemaster’s house.
nWVpY TIL the Lenny Kravitz song 'Always On The Run' was originally written by Slash and intended for use on a Guns N Roses studio album, but their drummer encountered problems with it, so Slash gave the song to Kravitz.
8AQX TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.
oygL TIL a crime watch meeting in Florida was interrupted by a falling 75lb bale of cocaine that had been ejected from a drug smuggling plane flying overhead